Jesus I Was Evil

One day before the final entry in NZ Music Month, here's Darcy Clay with the 1990s entry "Jesus I Was Evil".



This video was posted to my Facebook earlier this month as a possible entry, but back then (two weeks ago) I wasn't familiar with Darcy Clay. His story was an interesting one, outlined in the wiki page above as well as the comments to this video. His entire output consisted of one 6 song EP recorded all by himself on 4-track, and a live CDR recorded when he opened for Blur in Auckland. A few months after releasing the EP, he committed suicide, two weeks before he was scheduled to perform at an anti-suicide fund-raiser. Oh irony!

A few years later, "Jesus I Was Evil" was ranked #15 on the top New Zealand songs of all time, just above the Chills' "Pink Frost". If Darcy had hung around, I'm sure Darcy Clay could have been the next Beck, at least the next Chris Knox (who wrote a song about Darcy after his suicide).

Anyway, Darcy Clay's one EP Jesus I Was Evil) came out on a small label (Antenna Records) and was released only in New Zealand, so it's pretty hard to find. I can't even find it on sites where illegal mp3s are trafficked. "Can anyone hook a brotha up, Yo?" as the kids would say.